Moon: Clementine Mission Global Mosaic

This is a global mosaic image of the Moon as seen by the near-infrared sensors on the Clementine spacecraft.

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For more information, see:
Clementine Near-Infrared Global Multispectral Lunar Map

Mars: Schiaparelli Hemisphere

Mosaic of the Schiaparelli hemisphere of Mars projected into point perspective, a view similar to that which one would see from a spacecraft. The images were acquired in 1980 during early northern summer on Mars. The center of this image is near the impact crater Schiaparelli.

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For more images and info, see:
Martian Hemisphere Images

Venus: Aphrodite Terra

This region is one of the most rugged on Venus. The terrain of this region is made up of tessera, which are interlacing ridges and valleys. The imagery was collected by the Magellan mission, which used radar to "see" the surface of Venus beneath its heavy atmosphere.

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Make your own custom maps of the planets! Map-a-Planet: NASA Planetary Data System

Moon: Image Captured by the Lunar Orbiter Mission

This image is a digital mosaic made by scanning Lunar Orbiter film strips, and reassembling them into an image. This frame is from the Lunar Orbiter IV mission ans shows the central and southeastern portion of the lunar near side. Prominent in this view are features such as Copernicus crater and the cratered highlands (center, left), the southern rims of Imbrium (upper left) and Serenitatis (upper right) basins, and the pyroclastic mantling deposit of Rima Bode (upper center).

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For more images and info, see:
Lunar Orbiter Project

Earth: Torfajökull Ice Cap, Iceland

View (looking north) of the Torfajökull ice cap, a small ice cap north of Myrdalsjökull. North (above) of Torfajökull is a light-yellow colored region of Landmannalaugar, an altered rhyolitic volcanic system. Photo courtesy of M. Chapman

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For more images and info, see:
Volcano/Ice Interactions Workshop

Mars: Central Candor Chasma, Valles Marineris

The Valles Marineris is a system of canyons located just south of the Martian equator. The system is about 4000 km long, and, if on earth, would extend all the way across the United States. The central individual troughs, generally 50 to 100 km wide, merge into a depression as much as 600 km wide. In places the canyon floor reaches a depth of 10 km, 6 to 7 times deeper than the Grand Canyon. This computer generated image features the central region of Valles Marineris.

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For more images and info, see:
VallesMarineris: The Grand Canyon of Mars

Ganymede: Geologic Map of the Uruk Sulcus Region

This geologic map of the Uruk Sulcus region of Jupiter's moon, Gaymede, were created using images from the Voyager mission. The creators of the map looked at albedo, surface morphology and texture, and crater densities on the images to distinguish one geologic unit from another. For more detailed information about this map, download the text and figures for the Geologic Map of the Uruk Sulcus Region map, 600 kB (PDF requires free Adobe Acrobat Reader).

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For more maps and info, see:
Planetary Mapping Program

Moon: Shaded Relief Image

This is a computer generated image of the lunar surface that enhances our ability to see the shape and texture of the terrain. The texture of the surface is enhanced by simulating sunlight shining from the right side of the image to create shadows and highlights.

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For more about the Moon, see:
PIGWAD Planetary GIS Web Server
Clementine Mission Moon Images

Mars: Map with the names of large regions

This is a color-coded shaded relief map of the Martian surface with major regions labeled on the map. The shadows and highlights of the shaded relief (similar to the shaded relief of the Moon to the left) gives the map a sense of texture. The colors differentiate the elevation -- violet and blue being low elevations, tan and white being high elevations. The map base was created using data from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter.

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For more image maps like this, see the
Images With Names page on the The Gazeteer of Planetary Nomenclature website

Mars: Pathfinder Panorama

This enhanced-color, 360-degree "Gallery Panorama" of the Pathfinder landing site was obtained July 11-13, 1997 by the IMP camera. The Sojourner rover is shown next to the large rock nicknamed "Yogi," with the Alpha-Proton X-ray spectrometer (APXS) deployed onto the rock surface.
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For more info, see:
USGS Participation in the Mars Pathfinder Mission